Recreation and Relaxation: Week One, Day One

My weight this morning 198 pounds; 30 pounds left to lose.

Today I ate half a bagel with with some cream cheese on it before rushing the kids to shool and then heading to the Y. I arrived about 20 minutes late to the Zumba toning class. It was fun! I didn't know the routine and had a hard time keeping up, but the music was good and we wiggled our hips alot. I think I'll like the class. After Zumba, I joined the yoga class across the hall. Yea! Yoga was a nice relaxing stretch with meditation at the end. I feel much better and less stressed already!

I was really hungry after all that, so I caved to temptation and got a $1 sausage biscuit at Mcdonald's and a small (free) water. Now I am using the library wifi to compose this post.

1/2 bagel 115 calories. calories from fat 5
1 ounce cream cheese 100 calories. calories from fat 80
one Mcdonalds sausage biscuit 430 calories. calories from fat 240

total for this morning 645 calories fat calories 325

Ok so the sausage biscuit was an indulgence. Guess I'll have to eat super low fat for the rest of the day. I think I'll have an apple when I get home.

A New Beginning: Week One

I have not made a new year's resolution to loose weight. I don't like dieting. But my blood pressure and my stress levels are high. I do like exercise, though. I have been living apart from my soon to be ex for 2 years and my mother (meddling and hypercritical as mothers can be sometimes) has insisted on spending money on my weight loss. She wanted to enroll me in Jenny Craig. I talked her into paying my start up costs for a family YMCA membership instead. I have promised her that I will lose 30 pounds in 30 weeks. I am 5'2" and weigh 198-202 pounds depending on when and which scale I step on. So in 30 weeks I plan to weigh 168-172 pounds depending on when and which scale I step on.

I hope this blog will help keep me motivated. I will list what I eat, and what and how much exercise I've done. I may even share a bit of my day; my frustrations, and triumphs.